Iowa State will take its three-game winning streak on the road to face an always-dangerous Nebraska team in Lincoln.

“This Nebraska team is capable of beating anyone in our conference. I know they had a loss to Kansas there the other day, but Kansas played very well,” said Cyclone head coach Wayne Morgan. “But the same Nebraska team almost had a shot there to beat Kansas at Kansas.”

The last time Iowa State won in Lincoln, a 60-59 victory on Jan. 20, 2001, it took a lob pass from Jamaal Tinsley to Martin Rancik with 0.8 seconds left to put away the Huskers. Since then, the home team has won every game.

Iowa State is coming off its first road conference win in 29 attempts and seems to be a completely different team than the one that opened conference play 0-5. It has viable fourth and fifth scorers, freshmen Tasheed Carr and Rahshon Clark, who aren’t bothered with eligibility issues.

The Cyclones are only playing seven people regularly, which could be dangerous with the three-quarters court press they have been playing, but it only seems to have made them better.

“In my mind, it was just going to be a matter of time that we would win conference games and get to a point where we would could be consistent,” Morgan said. “Are we to that point yet? I don’t know, but I feel that as this program goes, we’ll get to a point where we’ll win away games [consistently].”

To keep winning games on the road, Iowa State will have to slow down the Cornhuskers’ guard attack.

Nebraska is led by 6-foot-5 freshman Joe McCray, who is averaging 14.3 points per game. Four of Nebraska’s top five scorers are perimeter players.

The people to balance that, though, are Carr and Clark, who have really stood out in the last three games.

“We knew it was a matter of time,” Carr said. “We just had to continue to stay confident and go out there and help our team in any way possible.

“When I play basketball, I have no fears on the court. It’s just a game, and it’s fun out there.”

Carr is averaging 14 points and 3.7 rebounds in his last three games, after putting in only 2.6 points per game in his previous 16 games, when the Cyclones went 8-8.

Statistics can only tell so much about a player, though. The confidence Carr and the team have had during the past three games has really shown in the way the team’s scoring totals have balanced out.

“I think that one of the reasons we were able to have success down in Texas is that the guys always did have confidence,” Morgan said.

Carr said he couldn’t agree more.

“Our confidence level has never been affected, even the games we were winning and the tough times we had — our confidence was never affected,” he said. “We just have to continue to go out there and get better.

“We feel that we can go anywhere and win, whether it’s home or away.”